{"id":10618,"date":"2016-09-07T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2016-09-07T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T05:07:15","slug":"son-of-whore-not-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/son-of-whore-not-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"“Son of Whore” not personal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is sorry he insulted President Barack Obama – sort of. He now “regrets” that calling Obama “son of a whore” caused so much controversy.<\/p>\n

Duterte lashed out at the United States for raising questions about a “drug war” that has killed 2,400 Filipinos. The United States responded by canceling a meeting. Tuesday<\/span><\/span>, Duterte tried to walk the comment back. “Not personal,” he said.<\/p>\n

The incident, unsurprisingly, is making headlines. Although Duterte is fond of swearing – the man swore at the pope – it’s not every day that you hear a sitting president insult an ally. It’s certainly not every day that you hear a sitting president say the words “son of a whore.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0The White House, however, remained a bit indifferent. “We’ve noted the statements he’s made throughout the day,” said deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.<\/div>\n
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Rhodes explained that the White House canceled the meeting because “all we were going to discuss were a series of comments. Frankly (that) did not strike us as the most constructive way to conduct a bilateral meeting.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is sorry he insulted President Barack Obama – sort of. He now “regrets” that calling Obama “son of a whore” caused so much controversy. Duterte lashed out at the United States for raising questions about a “drug war” that has killed 2,400 Filipinos. The United States responded by canceling a meeting. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[4377,4291,4380,4378,4379],"class_list":["post-10618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-son-of-whore-not-personal","tag-barack-obama","tag-not-personal","tag-philippine-president","tag-rodrigo-duterte"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Duterte-940x580.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}